Why Spain’s new Sahrawi citizenship law matters to Morocco
The new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat.
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The new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat.
Spanish police charged at left-wing protesters in Barcelona on Catalonia's National Day.
Spain’s parliament backs citizenship for Sahrawis amid tense relations with Morocco after the Ceuta crossing.
After lower house approval, the bill to grant tens of thousands of Sahrawis citizenship now goes to the Spanish Senate.
Over 70,000 migrants entered Ceuta, sparking a humanitarian crisis and political tensions between Spain and Morocco.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez defended his government's handling of the migration crisis in Ceuta where some 80,000 migrants tried to enter at the end of July
Declassified documents show Madrid and Morocco were warned of plans by migrants to breach the Ceuta border.
Declassified documents show Spanish and Moroccan authorities were alerted to social media calls for a mass migrant crossing the day before tens of thousands entered Ceuta.
The EU on Wednesday said it was granting Spain 115 million euros ($130 million) in emergency aid to help bolster border security and assist returns after the massive migrant rush into the north African exclave. More than 70,000 migrants crossed into Spanish territory from Morocco on July 30 and 31 in an unprecedented rush that left scores dead, most by drowning as they tried to swim around a breakwater. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris reports from Madrid.
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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday rejected, again, suggestions that Moroccan authorities helped orchestrate the deadly mass crossing of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, as pressure grows over his handling of the crisis
Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Alana Moceri, International Relations Professor at IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs. She sees the Ceuta migrant crossings as a both a domestic and international crisis. The scale and speed of the crossings point toward what she calls a form of "deliberate permissiveness" at the border and Pedro Sánchez's restrained response is understood less as exoneration of Morocco than as pragmatic international relations. Sánchez faces pressure at home from political opponents able to frame migration as an existential crisis. She extends the argument further by showing how such episodes become politically valuable after they occur: Spain's far right can amplify the language of "invasion," while hostile foreign information ecosystems can exploit an already volatile controversy without necessarily having created it. The result is a crisis in which the border is simultaneously a geopolitical instrument, a domestic political weapon, and an information battleground.
PM Pedro Sanchez addresses police report suggesting July border surge was planned to overwhelm border controls.
Spain has found no evidence to conclude that July's deadly border rush from Morocco into its enclave of Ceuta was orchestrated by Moroccan authorities, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursday, countering allegations in a Spanish police report. Speaking in parliament, Sanchez responded to claims in the report that emerged this week suggesting the entry of over 70,000 people into Ceuta was not a spontaneous migration but a planned effort to overwhelm border controls.
There is no evidence Morocco was behind the mass influx of migrants that overwhelmed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in July, Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez told lawmakers Thursday. Sanchez's comments followed a police report that emerged this week saying that the mass entry into Ceuta was not a spontaneous migration event but a planned and phased operation designed to overwhelm border controls.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has told lawmakers that there is no evidence the Ceuta migrant crisis was orchestrated by Morocco's government. His remarks come a day after tens of thousands of people took part in protests across the country to criticize his handling of the migrant influx. He acknowledged that Ceuta was both a humanitarian crisis and an administrative challenge. But he rejected the findings of a police report that seemed to lay blame on Morocco. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris reports from Madrid, Spain.
A Moroccan migrant on Wednesday argued he and other migrants had the right to apply for asylum, after crossing the border to the Spanish city of Ceuta, as the enclave marked its September 2 annual official holiday.
Pedro Sánchez tells parliament it is absurd to think the government knew and did nothing, after thousands join protests in Spanish cities.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets Wednesday across Spain to protest the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ceuta, demanding solutions and blaming Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for his government's handling of it
Tens of thousands rallied across Spain protesting the government's handling of the Ceuta migrant crisis.
Spanish opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of abandoning the residents of Ceuta.
Hundreds of migrants are reluctant to the official reception centres, following Madrid's announcement of its intention to deport the migrants who arrived in July via the border with Morocco.
Spanish prosecutors say 23 sexual assault cases, including nine involving children, have been reported in Ceuta since thousands of migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish territory at the end of July.
Spain's government has approved more than 300 million euros in additional aid for its North African exclave of Ceuta. Madrid said the funding is aimed at supporting "all fronts" as it struggles to accommodate thousands of migrants who entered the territory last month.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says there is no evidence that Moroccan authorities were involved in the sudden arrival of more than 70,000 migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last month.